{"id":39809,"date":"2017-08-17T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39809"},"modified":"2017-08-16T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T17:12:38","slug":"hms-queen-elizabeth-enters-portsmouth-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/17\/hms-queen-elizabeth-enters-portsmouth-harbour\/","title":{"rendered":"HMS Queen Elizabeth<\/em> enters Portsmouth harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"

At The Register<\/em>, Gareth Corfield<\/a> reports from Portsmouth as the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth<\/em> visits her new home port for the first time:<\/p>\n

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Royal Navy aircraft fly over HMS Queen Elizabeth<\/em> as she enters Portsmouth harbour. Click to see full-sized photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

Britain\u2019s newest warship, its biggest warship of all time, HMS Queen Elizabeth<\/em>, entered Portsmouth Harbour for the first time this morning.<\/p>\n

The 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier entered the port at 0710 this morning under the watchful eye of half a dozen tugboats, a small flotilla of police vessels – and crowds of thousands lining the sea front along Portsmouth and Southsea.<\/p>\n

In addition, scores of smaller civil vessels accompanied the carrier at a respectful distance. A flypast of Royal Navy helicopters and fast jets – Hawk training aircraft – also took place as the carrier made her stately way towards the naval base.<\/p>\n

Admiral Lord West, the former head of the navy and now a Labour Party peer, told The Register<\/em> as the ship came in: \u201cThis is a very joyous day. She looks splendid. We had lost sight of our maritime capability. This is something very special for Portsmouth and the Navy.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if the Queen Elizabeth<\/em>-class carriers were necessary, the admiral said: \u201cThe one thing you can\u2019t guarantee is what will happen tomorrow. When they\u2019ve got their fixed wing assets, they\u2019ll be one of the only capabilities [the UK has that will have] a strategic impact. It\u2019s 4.5 acres of British sovereign territory.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At The Register, Gareth Corfield reports from Portsmouth as the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth visits her new home port for the first time: Britain\u2019s newest warship, its biggest warship of all time, HMS Queen Elizabeth, entered Portsmouth Harbour for the first time this morning. The 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier entered the port […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[617,30],"class_list":["post-39809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-military","tag-carriers","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-am5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39811,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809\/revisions\/39811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}